Music to the Ears and Lips

Vinyl may be the trendy throwback, but is music on beer bottles the wave of the future? Buellton, an indie rock group from Southern California, released its new album, Silent Partner, as a bottle of beer brewed by Santa Barbara’s Telegraph Brewing Co. The label of the beer, a Belgian-style session ale also called Silent Partner, serves as the cover and liner notes while a digital download code is underneath the cap.

“We were enthusiastic about this project from the first moment we discussed it,” says Telegraph Brewing founder Brian Thompson in a statement. “Beer and music go together in every way imaginable; this is such a natural pairing.”